THIS IS JAPAN: Eikoku Hoikushi ga Mita Nippon (Shincho Bunko)

[Machine Translation] From Britain, where the working class revolts with the power of desperation, to our motherland, where the author is staying in Japan for the first time in 20 years. The scene of austerity seen at a nursery school, the site of a dispute where workers shout abuse at workers, the human rights agenda where poverty has slipped away, the miraculous place where a hole opens in the blockage.... This is Japan today. We visited grassroots activists and exchanged words with them. This is a reportage of a "fairyland" covered in middle-class consciousness, seen from the ground.

やけくそのパワーで労働者階級が反乱を起こす英国から、わが祖国へ。20年ぶりに著者は日本に長期滞在する。保育園で見た緊縮の光景、労働者が労働者に罵声を浴びせる争議の現場、貧困が抜け落ちた人権課題、閉塞に穴が開く奇跡のような場所...。これが、今の日本だ。草の根の活動家たちを訪ね歩き、言葉を交わす。中流意識に覆われた「おとぎの国」を地べたから見つめたルポルタージュ。